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If you think you need it I don’t see why not. People who have hearing problems sometimes have problems with balance. More generally, in the absence of having a doctor available on every train to adjudicate, I don’t think we should get into making fine judgements about the degree of disability...

Shouting at passengers is not in the protocol. Having said that, I’m sure she was anxious about opening the bag. So understandable!

Walking anywhere near an operational railway is orders of magnitude more dangerous than inspecting unattended luggage. The chance of unattended luggage being an about to explode bomb is very very close to zero.

Wires were seen hanging out of the Parsons Green device. So it would have failed HOT. Not that this stopped members of the public wondering up to it and filming it :-/

Also note from the article there are an estimated 250,000 items of unattended luggage per year. If they were all treated as bombs then it would basically be the end of the rail system in the U.K. I guess what actually happens in about 249,500 of those instances is someone trundles over, takes a...

If you’d been unlucky enough to look in at the exact second it detonated, yes. Are they? I don’t think any IEDs found on the UK transport system have ever been fitted with a tamper device, but correct me if I’m wrong. Unstable, maybe, but they must have been carried to wherever they got to.

Yet you’ve not been able to provide any evidence to the contrary other than ‘trust me, I’m a journalist’.

I thought terrorists tended to attack crowded places? You are saying that when you are walking home alone at night you don’t wear headphones because you are worried about being attacked by terrorists? Do you think you might be rather underlining the points people are making here about the...

It’s not so much that people are denying that there is any threat to the railway, clearly there is, although (despite the current ‘threat level’) it is actually much lower than when the IRA did their bombing campaign targeted at rail stations and lines, when there was no published threat level...

You shouldn’t use noise cancelling headphone because of...terrorists? Now I’ve heard everything!

I’ve had a quick Google and not found anything - would you mind posting some links? They would make an interesting read. I found a US document but it doesn’t seem to correspond to what actually happens in the U.K.

Yes, but my question was intended to discover whether the reporting of unattended luggage by a member of the public (or indeed by a member of railway staff) had ever actually saved a life. This excludes intelligence led operations and applies only to transport (I think you may have misunderstood...

So there have been between 2 and 4 viable bombs which have been discovered by members of the public in the last 10 years but the public has not been told about them? I am shocked, I have to say. If these were in the UK then this would represent a significant increase in the threat level. I find...

I wasn't aware that I had stated a view about this topic (don't confuse me with the OP) - I am genuinely interested to know if there had ever been a really serious explosion prevented by a member of the public reporting suspicious luggage. The North Greenwich device was certainly a dangerous...

There wouldn’t be many reasons for it not to be public, especially given the amount of fuss closing a station to destroy a viable device would cause. Indeed if it wasn’t publicised that there was a bomber on the loose, and another bomb went off, the security services would get it in the neck for...

Ah, good spot I’d forgotten about that one. Technically no harm was prevented though because the initiator on the bomb failed. Are there any examples of stations being evacuated before fully working bombs exploded following a random spot?

Has a bomb ever been found on a station anywhere in the world which has been discovered by searching unattended luggage? In the absence of a warning, threat or specific information, that is?

Because a huge amount of it happens to be in the Green Belt. There is 20,000 hectares of undeveloped Green Belt land within 10 minutes walk of a London station excluding land that is of amenity value, SSSI, etc (that is, land that is not actually very green, basically industrial farmland or...